Once, at the Jagannath temple, a lady could not see Lord Jagannath and she
put her leg on the shoulder of Mahaprabhu. Govinda saw it and quickly stopped
her, "Hey, what are you doing?!" but Mahaprabhu told him not to do it. Later,
Govinda asked, "Prabhu, why did You tell me not to stop her?" Mahaprabhu
replied, "Why were you disturbing her? I do not have the kind of arthi,
desire, that she has." Just think about it—how much desire to see Lord
Jagannath that girl must have had that she did not even think there was a
man, a sannyasi(!), there—she just climbed up and put her leg on
Mahaprabhu! There can be that much desire to see Lord Jagannath...

For a person who eats, relaxes, and works in a regulated way, and who keeps
regular hours in proper measure, his practice of yoga dispels all his
suffering.

Srimad Bhagavad-gita, 6.17

Those who eat regularly, who work regularly, who sleep regularly, can
practise properly. Regular sleeping, regular prasadam is also a part of
service. If you cannot do it, you will not be able to practise. Do you
understand it?

There is a girl who eats only rotis, she does not eat anything else, not even
kitchuri—only arepa. When you go to different countries, where will you
get arepa there? In Vaikuntha there is no arepa, in Goloka Vrindavan there is
no arepa...

You must have habit to take all kinds of prasadam. When they gave us prasadam
at the Nilamadhav temple, are we habituated with this kind of prasadam? No,
but we took it—it is Nilamadhav's prasad! What did Jagannath eat
before? Lord Jagannath's name before was Nilamadhav and He would take kanda
mul—it is a root of a plant, looks like sweet potato.

When you cut a coconut tree, the inside of the trunk is very sweet and tasty.
When you cut a palm tree also—it has very sweet inside, very sweet
and soft.

There are 400,000 kinds of human beings, jiva souls, and they all worship the
Lord in their own way. If you go to different parts of India—Sinchal,
Assam, Manipur, even Bengal—you will see there are so many way that
people worship the Lord...

Howsoever people surrender to Me, I accordingly reward them. Being the
ultimate goal of all paths, I am the objective to be attained by all. O
Partha, all men follow My various paths.

Srimad Bhagavad-gita, 4.11

Somebody sees a banyan tree, they think it is the Lord and start worshipping
it. Before the Age of Kali, when Kali-yuga just started and even before
Mahaprabhu came, people worshipped the Lord in so many ways. When the Lord
comes Himself here, He gives some process to us. Something is told in
Srimad Bhagavad-gita, the words of Krishna, and they follow it to some
extent. When, however, Mahaprabhu came, He Himself showed us
everything—He Himself taught us and explained the scriptures.

'Mahaprabhu told everybody how to observe Ekadasi, and our Guru-varga also
follow it. We must understand how to follow the Ekadasi day. Why do you leave
your food? Not to please yourself, but to please the Lord.'